Hopelink has been helping to fight poverty in North and East King County in Washington state for more than 35 years. The organization is dedicated to promoting self-sufficiency in all members of our community and providing the tools through which they can make a lasting change. Learn more about our services here. http://www.hope-link.org/takeaction/programs
To better serve our community Hopelink building a new facility in the Kirkland/Northshore area. The site will feature a grocery store-type foodbank, something no other Hopelink facility has featured before! This innovative site will also house a library, classrooms for adult education, as well as a large foodbank featuring produce and dairy cases.
We need your help to make this community resource a reality - And there are many ways you can help.
You can adopting a project by helping to raise funds for one specific component of the new site, you can participate in done-in-a-day projects to prepare the site for the move-in, or you can help move materials from the two former food banks to the Kirkland/Northshore site, or even simply spreading the word on the new facility and telling people what Hopelink is all about through twitter, facebook or LinkedIn.
START HERE: View the list of projects you can raise funding for can be found on the Hopelink website at http://www.hope-link.org/takeaction/onthemove/adoptaproject. Please contact Barbara Whitehurst at barbaraw@hope-link.org or 425-869-6011 for information and tours.
All the done-in-a-day projects can be found at http://www.hope-link.org/takeaction/onthemove/doneinaday and please contact Sheila Sloan-Evans at 425-869-6066 or sheilase@hope-link.org for more information on what you can do to help.
Please tell your friends and family what Hopelink is doing to help our community and getting the word out that we need all the help we can get with the Kirkland/Northshore site.
You can directly support the project here: and instead of donating in person, save time by donating online at www.firstgiving.com/onthemove
Thursday, July 2, 2009
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